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Premium Member Watch Out Big Foot
Our home came from an old apple tree, the storm came and we had to flee. We still make honey for brie, all my wonderful siblings and me. I am the youngest yellow bee, my family is filled with glee. Watch...Read the rest...
Categories: home, family, food, fun, giggle,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Home
There is a lot on my mind of late Wondering about my fate Been kinda lost What does the future cost My new heart Plays a part I want to go home now Working on the how Been so very long Now that...Read the rest...
Categories: age, dream, home, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On The Trail, For A Little While
He figured the dreaming had ended for another day Looking out over where he was camped. Than the Wanderling had a quick thought… ‘Was this place indeed better Then where else he had traveled… Such as, when released...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, dream, home, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Miss - What I Miss
I miss true friends, today people want to have it their way. I miss the ocean, pretty blue waves with white caps. I miss being a child, when life was truly free. I miss my dad, my hero and friend. I miss...Read the rest...
Categories: dad, friend, heaven, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Going Home - Abracadabra
My heart strokes the strings of memories, utterly sublime. Alpine trees echo enticing chants to welcome me there. Whirling in spirited hurry, now free from all worry. Anticipation is engrossing my mind, before time. There is magnetism...Read the rest...
Categories: home, mountains,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member HEAVEN'S SCENT
My candle it burned at both ends, It disappeared by mornings light, Where its warmth and fragrance went, That is where I'll soon be sent. My angel she'll descend, Grandma I'll see you soon, I'll walk through the front door,...Read the rest...
Categories: home, angel, cancer, death, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Home
My safe haven, my sanctuary away from everything...Read the rest...
Categories: home,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A String, A Stick, A Stone
a morsel of this a crumb of that a string, a stick, a stone ...Read the rest...
Categories: bird, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ocean City Dream 2
Upon a day of cloudless skies, came breezes with suggestive strength. I00 was the heat index. Its beauty was the best July could ever muster forcing my hair to dance to ocean music in the wind, a present from the...Read the rest...
Categories: beach, emotions, home, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member nature's clues
broken branches lead to secret home of insects hiding from the world...Read the rest...
Categories: home,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Step Back In Time
A step back in time when verandas had rocking chairs purposely placed in the sunlight; waiting for Grandma to sit, and rock until darkness descended. (#1)...Read the rest...
Categories: age, grandmother, home, image,
Form: Verse
Making My Way
Over the shoulder of the old mountain, Along the trace and through the crowning wood, I strolled along in shadow and sunshine Until in the ancient orchard I stood. Before me were aging pear trees and plum And over there...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, home, journey, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Stormbound
Gaze out to sea upon blown rig and sail in our fright’s strand on stormwatch to the south, heed the mighty whirlwind, its scything trail - Galleon’s Passage to the Serpent’s Mouth. See the bended...Read the rest...
Categories: home, nature, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member THIS IS BEING
I sat in a moment in TIME to Figure the hours I watched The traffic from my window to Determine the ways of the world I will next watch the ROARING OCEAN and BE AMAZED at the Commotion...Read the rest...
Categories: home, age, art, blue, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member where I live
In my cul-de-sac tall trees hide us from the street keeping us from harm...Read the rest...
Categories: home,
Form: Haiku

Specific Types of Home Poems

Read wonderful home poetry on the following sub-topics: away from, coming, daughter, farewell, funny, going, haiku, heart, home sweet, love, moving away, new, nursing, welcome and more.

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